Hacker News: willvk

New comment by willvk in "France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months"

willvk — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 01:24:54 +0000

So this is the real reason they're rioting. I'd be pissed too.

New comment by willvk in "Gigabyte B300 Workstation PC"

willvk — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:53:45 +0000

Ah, I posted the wrong link. Lol. Should have been this one:

https://www.gigabyte.com/au/Enterprise/Tower-Server/W775-V10...

Still not a workstation, but close enough.

New comment by willvk in "Gigabyte B300 Workstation PC"

willvk — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:23:46 +0000

About $100k USD I think.

Gigabyte B300 Workstation PC

willvk — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:53:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gigabyte.com/press/news/2317

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49988368

Points: 4

# Comments: 5

A Mysterious Signal Transfixes Radio Sleuths and Intelligence Experts

willvk — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:18:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rferl.org/a/mystery-numbers-station-persian-signal-iran-war/33700659.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47331713

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by willvk in "Spherical Snake"

willvk — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:06:59 +0000

Great to see someone thinking outside the box.

Cycling vs. Running: A Debate on Claude

willvk — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:06:41 +0000

Article URL: https://claude.ai/share/d82f34e8-fc81-4097-aadb-9fc44bfc1f6a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44581292

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by willvk in "Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'"

willvk — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:34:22 +0000

Not sure if it's been mentioned but 1831 on a keypad makes a triangle, or a prism, if you will.

Beijing's app collecting information from Belt and Road companies

willvk — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 10:07:02 +0000

Article URL: https://aspi.org.au/opinion/exclusive-inside-beijings-app-collecting-information-belt-and-road-companies

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41739813

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Kdenlive

willvk — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:19:28 +0000

Article URL: https://kdenlive.org/en/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41668462

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Switching off inflammatory protein leads to longer, healthier lifespans in mice

willvk — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:37:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240717120907.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41006449

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Governments agree to ban the export of quantum computers

willvk — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 10:56:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/multiple-governments-around-the-world-have-secretly-agreed-to-restrict-the-export-of-quantum-computers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40914603

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A new music device that turns EMFs into demonic sounds

willvk — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 02:47:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.musicradar.com/news/eternal-research-demon-box

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40665428

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Astronomers discover a powerful source of energy that pulses every 18 minutes

willvk — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 04:20:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-01-27/astronomers-discover-mysterious-object-in-the-milky-way-galaxy/100774556

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30096166

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Giant googly eyes appear around Adelaide

willvk — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:39:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-18/googly-eyes-keep-appearing-around-adelaide/100763332

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29974351

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Observing the radio sky with PICTOR [pdf]

willvk — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 22:34:18 +0000

Article URL: https://pictortelescope.com/Observing_the_radio_sky_with_PICTOR.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29364267

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Troubleshooting a Vim Dotnet Plugin

willvk — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 12:40:36 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.seso.io/posts/troubleshooting-a-dotnet-vim-plugin/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22341283

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by willvk in "How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger"

willvk — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 12:52:05 +0000

This is the best and simplest description I have seen of parenting. Do no get emotional. Describe, explain, reason, rationalise. Beautiful. Such timeless advice.

New comment by willvk in "Character by character TTY input in Unix, then and now"

willvk — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 18:08:40 +0000

Happy to be wrong on this and good to know it did exist before x86. Thanks for the replies.

New comment by willvk in "Character by character TTY input in Unix, then and now"

willvk — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 17:42:17 +0000

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that protected mode existed in old Unix systems and so was not delineated between user space and kernel space as described.

Protected mode and the separation of kernel and user space was only available since 80286 processors starting in 1982.

Refs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_space

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_mode